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A City’s Loss
This is an absolute shame. Time for the politicians to get their act together and stop sugar coating the situation. It is also time for parents to start parenting their kids properly. The absentee father situation is particularly disturbing to me. My Chicago PD friend says that he can’t wait to retire and get the hell out of Chicago…This comes from a guy that grew up loving the city…. This story is reprinted from The Chicago Tribune: Last week, as a soft rain fell, Tom Wortham stood on the Cole Park basketball courts across from the home his grandfather built half a century ago. The 30-year-old Chicago police officer …Read more […..]
Cross taken, Vets offended – Reward offered
Less than two weeks after being temporarily saved by a Supreme Court ruling, the cross standing at the Mojave Desert War Memorial has been stolen. Sometime late Sunday night, vandals destroyed, ripped down, and carried off the cross that had stood since 1934 as a memorial to fallen veterans of foreign wars. It had been under a court order to tear it down, but the Supreme Court recently saved it pending outcome of a decision from a lower court. Kelly Shackelford of Liberty Institute calls the vandalism “an incredible outrage.” “I mean it’s akin to desecrating people’s graves. It’s just a disgraceful attack …Read more […..]
Man charged with shooting Stone Park officer
A 28-year-old man was charged Saturday night with shooting a Stone Park police officer with a shotgun from a nearby strip mall as the officer conducted a traffic stop early Saturday morning, police in the west suburban city said. Rashaun Carlisle, of Melrose Park, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and unlawful use of a firearm, police said in a statement. The police officer, three-year-veteran Robert Vicari, was hit in the face and shoulder, but was not seriously hurt, authorities said. Vicari was back home this afternoon, said Stone Park Mayor Beniamino Mazzulla. “We were all …Read more […..]
Calif woman pleads guilty in Sandra Cantu murder
TRACY, Calif. — A California Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing an 8-year-old playmate of her daughter, then stuffing the body in a suitcase, pleaded guilty Monday to murder. Melissa Huckaby, 29, entered the plea in San Joaquin County Superior Court to a charge of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of kidnapping. As part of a deal with prosecutors, all other charges — including two involving rape and lewd or lascivious conduct with a child under 14 — were dropped, according to court spokeswoman Sharon Morris. The surprise plea came during what was scheduled …Read more […..]
Report says suspect pursuits yield high fatalities
One-third of those killed in high speed chases are bystanders Bystanders account for one-third of those who are killed in high-speed police chases, a USA TODAY review has found. The deaths have several communities around the nation wrestling with whether to restrict pursuits only to suspects in violent crimes. About 360 people are killed each year in police chases, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Advocates of more restrictive chase policies say the death numbers are lower than the real toll because no mandatory reporting system exists for deaths in pursuits. Geoffrey Alpert, …Read more […..]
Technology Wars: Cops vs. Speeders
The battle is raging between police officers and speeders as they continually try to one-up the other with new technology (Corbis). People speed for plenty of reasons. Some claim they’re in a hurry. Some aren’t paying attention. Some do it for sport. Likewise, police have multiple motivations for ticketing speeders. Some officers claim driving anything over the speed limit is “unsafe.” Some departments do it to fill municipal coffers hit hard by falling tax revenues. And yes, some do it for sport. Regardless of why drivers speed and cops ticket, each side is using technology to increase their chances …Read more […..]
Wisconsin Tries to Get Tough on Drunken Driving
MILWAUKEE (April 27) — A Wisconsin lawmaker has been jailed for his third DWI conviction — in a state with the nation’s highest rate of drunken driving, some of the weakest laws against it and a list of lawmakers convicted of it. State Rep. Jeff Wood, an independent from rural Chippewa Falls, reported to the Columbia County jail Monday to start his 45-day sentence, days after his fellow lawmakers voted to censure him when a vote to expel him from the Assembly failed. “There’s almost a wink-wink attitude about this here,” Nina Emerson, director of the Resource Center on Impaired Driving at the University of Wisconsin Law …Read more […..]